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Chapter Fifty Four

Leea looked at Baroness, unafraid of her but she saw Rowen tense up. She knew Hoshi had asked him not to hurt the being, but that didn't mean it was any easier to see her killer. Leea placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him down, but she could feel his shoulders were just as tense as his hands. Ryo looked concerned at the two of them, and Rowen started to head down the stairs.

"Wait," Leea said chasing after him with Ryo in toe. She had a feeling Ryo would grab him in a split second, but she wondered if Sage would.

Baroness starred at the young man calmly with her red gold eyes, "hello, Strata..."

"No formalities," he hissed. "You killed the woman I love, you better hope her soul is still alive when we get to the nether realm, or it won't be pretty..."

Baroness raised an eyebrow, looked at Sage, "are all you humans so... courageous?"

Sage grabbed Rowen and dragged him aside as Leea and Ryo pull Baroness the other way. Sage scowled, "look, she's going to lead us to Hoshi."

"I know that, but I don't trust any of them, she's like Bastet," he replied sternly to his friend. "She wasn't much fun to be around either."

Sage rubbed his brow, he was sure he was going to have a furrow like his father when he was older, "just try and be a little nice to her, she's part lion...i don't know if you've noticed but that's pretty dangerous."

Rowen glanced back and Leea and Ryo. Leea was talking with her pretty calmly and Ryo met his glance.

Leea said nervously, "sorry, Baroness, for the not so warm welcome..."

"I wasn't expecting it, according to Halo," Baroness said with a shrug. "That was rather pleasant, Lady Leea."

"Don't call me that," she insisted as she noticed Rowen was starring at her. Ryo placed a hand on her winged shoulder as she said, "look, don't threaten him, because I'm sure he'll take to it."

"I will try my best, my Lady," she said as she saw White Blaze saunter in. She starred at the tiger and asked, "why do you keep him around?"

Ryo starred at the big cat, "because, I used to think he was just a dumb tiger but I'm starting to think otherwise."

The tiger chuffed happily as he crawled up on to the couch almost arrogantly.

Baroness looked at the tiger, "oh, I see."

"You know, you and me need to have a talk," he said eyeing the beast across the room, who just sort of turned his head the way trying to feign ignorance.

Rowen turned back to Sage, "look, why are you so calm?"

"I don't like this anymore than you do," Sage hissed as he looked over at the three. "But..."

"But what?"

Sage pulled Rowen a little farther away into the kitchen, "I want you to have her back..."

"Hoshi?"

His blonde friend nodded and then brushed his bangs out of the way, "she was good for you, Ro. Remember when I told you about what my mom said about destiny?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, that girl is your soul mate," Sage said honestly. "And if we have to make a pact with a devil to get her back, we will."

Rowen snickered and glanced over at Baroness, "maybe she isn't a devil, but she might be close."

"No worse than Ruby is from what I here," Sage said quietly as he looked out the window. The sun was setting and felt terribly uneasy.

Baroness decided to play nice and came over to the two boys, she made a slight bow, "Strata, I vow to help you find her... It is my honor as a warrior."

"Some honor," he choked under his breath and Sage elbowed him in the ribs.

Leea came over and draped an arm over Rowen's shoulder and Baroness's waist, "great! Now that we've decided not rip out each others throats! We can have dinner."

Ryo smiled, "no Cye or Mia to cook tonight, take out?"

Baroness shrugged, "I already hunted this after noon."

There was long pause at her remark, and the front door banged open to see a huffing Kento. Baroness frowned at the new addition and he starred at her. He shrugged it off and ran in.

"Leea, Cye needs you now," he panted as he gasped for air bent over.

"What happened," Ryo asked as he rushed over to his friend. He placed a hand on his sweaty back, "is Cye okay?"

"He's fine, it's Raleigh," Kento replied as he looked up, he was still bent over. "She showed up at the campus and me and Cerule beat her, but...I was able to bring her back...but she's beat up bad, guys! Didn't you guys get my calls?"

Each of them looked at their phones, and Sage said, "I was out in the woods til a few moments ago."

"I called the house too..."

"I had my headphones on," Rowen said and looked to Ryo and Leea. "For obvious reasons..."

Leea and Ryo blushed bright red, and she said, "how am I suppose to get there?" She showed her wings off, "I can't exactly take public transit, and a car would be a nightmare..."

"Can't you just fly," Baroness suggested as they turned to her. "Seems the simplest solution."

"That's what Cye suggested, he lives near the campus," Kento said taking breaths between words. "I mean she's not dying...but she's hurt really bad."

"I guess I could," she looked at Ryo, who shrugged. He had no answers for her, "I mean its night, I shouldn't be visible, but fuck...it's gonna be hard..."

Rowen frowned, "you can fly to the mountains and back in an hour, how is this going to be harder?"

"Because it's night," she said poking him obnoxiously with her forefinger. "I don't have owl wings! I have what look like eagle wings...its harder to fly when the air is cool!"

"Sorry, I said anything," he quipped.

"She really needs you," Kento insisted, his eyes were big with worry. She had never seen the young warrior like that. He handed her the address and she headed to the back door. Ryo followed behind her as she stretched her wings in preparation.

Ryo gave her kiss, "be careful. Okay?"

She nodded, "just keep them from killing each!"

He gave her another long kiss, "I promise."

He saw her stretch her massive golden wings that were almost twice as long as she was tall. She flapped a few times to get of the ground and he saw her disappear into the night.